The name of Heyang City is one city, but it is actually composed of three connected cities. Among them, the south and north cities are built on the north and south banks of the river respectively, and the middle city is built on the sandbar in the river, and the three cities are connected by pontoon bridges, which is the key place in the north of Luoyang.

The three cities of Heyang are completely in the style of a military village, and the city is full of garrisons, and there are no residents. There were granaries and arsenals in the city, which could be used by the defenders for a year. Fortunately, in recent years, the armament has been relaxed, and there are not many soldiers and horses in Heyang City.

Tian Qianzhen knew that he might not be able to break through Heyang City with 3,000 Luohe alone, but he was still determined to give it a try, at least to test and consume the strength of the defenders, so as to find out the enemy's situation and reduce the burden for the future commander to attack the city. To the north of Heyang City is Huaizhou, and further north of Huaizhou is Hedong Road. Entrenched in Huaizhou can not only threaten Heyang City, but also facilitate the reception of Qingzong Langjun, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

In order to attack Heyang, Tian Qianzhen took out the most common means used by the northern Mobei tribe, that is, to drive the people as the vanguard. Huaizhou is sandwiched between mountains and rivers, with fertile land and dense population. Tian Qianzhen allowed the river to burn and loot, drove thousands of people to the city of Heyang, and forced them to drag wooden sticks and trembling to climb the rudimentary ladder.

Many of the defenders were originally from Huaizhou, and they were very familiar with the local accents with crying, and the arm that drew the bow suddenly weighed like a thousand pounds. There are also people who glimpse the faces of their relatives in a trance, and they are even more frightened. As the people approached the city walls, the city and the city wept.

Tian Qianzhen looked at the panicked embarrassment of the defenders of Heyang at the head of the city, and sneered. Driving the enemy people to be the vanguard is a common trick of the grassland tribes, and Tian Qianzhen does not feel that there is anything wrong with using it in Huaizhou. In his eyes, the warriors of the land of seclusion are wolves fighting incessantly in the bitter cold land, and the people in the heart of the Tang Dynasty are cowardly lambs raised in captivity in a land of abundant water and grass. Since it is a lamb, you must accept the fate of being devoured by wolves. The strong live, the weak die, and the weak eat the strong, which is the eternal way of heaven.

The unbearable defenders of Heyang went out of the city in anger and tried to rescue the people of Huaizhou with nearly 1,000 light horses. Riding and shooting on horses on the river, dismounting and foot fighting, proficient in everything. But as strong men who grew up on horseback, they preferred to fight on horseback rather than siege. Tian Qianzhen drove the people first, and originally had the intention of forcing the defenders out of the city.

As soon as the defending cavalry with the Ying Long banner left the city, Tian Qianzhen recognized that the other party was the Feilong Forbidden Army who had played polo with the Luoluo River. At the beginning of the year, escorting the festival marshal into Beijing, Tian Qianzhen listened to the words of Secretary Gao Zhang, the situation in the court was sinister, and someone secretly obstructed and tried to trap the festival commander in Chang'an. Therefore, Luoluohe was careful everywhere, and when he competed with the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army, he had to show his strength and lose the game quietly, which made Tian Qianzhen think a lot.

Now outside Heyang City, the real knife and real gun and the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army are fighting, and the Falling River, which is holding back the fire in the belly, has no reservations, they seize the flaw of the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army's eagerness to save people, and rush to kill arbitrarily, and the results are very fruitful, and they were once close to breaking through the gate of Heyang North City.

Slightly to Tian Qianzhen's surprise, the general who commanded the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army was extremely brave, with a left sword and a right sword, and he was unstoppable, and he slashed the three centurions of the river with his own strength, and saved the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army from a desperate situation several times, and kept the city gate in danger.

Seeing this, Tian Qianzhen, who was quite famous in the Fanyang army, held a few moves with the enemy general, not only did not take the other party, but was almost cut by it, and the morale of the river was setback, and the Feilong Forbidden Army took the opportunity to cover the people of Huaizhou and retreated to the city in a panic.

It was a great victory to snipe more than 200 people of the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army, but Tian Qianzhen was so angry that he was angry, not only annoyed that the people who were driven by the enemy were saved by the enemy, but also hated himself for being defeated by the enemy's sword.

In order to attack Heyang City again, Tian Qianzhen left 1,000 soldiers and horses to monitor the movement in the city, and he personally led two thousand-man teams out of the snow and plundered. Tian Qianzhen thought that he needed to storm Huaizhou City in order to plunder enough population, but he expected that the Huaizhou guards were as timid as rats, and the four gates were closed to prevent the people outside the city from entering the city to hide, and the Luoluo River easily captured thousands of Ding Zhuang.

When he was about to return to Heyang City, a tooth soldier suddenly came to report that a team of 100 people had not returned for a long time. Tian Qianzhen had heard that the Tang Dynasty had sent the Beiting Protector Wang Zhengjian to send troops to Hedong, and he was worried that his subordinates would lose, so he ordered his troops and horses to search, and soon found a hundred-man team that was fighting fiercely with the enemy more than ten miles away from the woods in the west.

The number of enemies is not large, but the combat power is extremely strong, comparable to the Wyvern Forbidden Army. They huddled in the woods to limit the riding advantage of the Dragdown. Occasionally, the river rushes to the edge of the woods, and it is hit by a critical attack of crossbow arrows from top to bottom.

"Repeater!?" Tian Qianzhen, who was skilled in arching horses, could see at a glance that although the opponent's bow and crossbow were powerful, the rate of fire was extremely fast, which was quite similar to the repeating crossbow that had emerged in Chang'an in recent years, and according to the Gyegi rangers, the repeater was Su Yeju's unique weapon.

"Suyeju...... Wang Zhengjian ...... "Tian Qianzhen instantly had a plan, and ordered the hundred-man team besieging the woods not to exert all their strength, and at the same time set up an ambush and waited for the fish to bite the hook."

The enemy's reaction was a little faster than Tian Qianzhen imagined, but with half a burnt of incense, more than 200 horsemen galloped over and fought with the hundred-man team.

"One person and three horses, the whole army is equipped with Mingguang armor and cotton robes, and the marching battle is very methodical, and it can always take the lead......" Tian Qianzhen listened to the information sent back by the tooth soldiers, and his expression became more and more solemn: "The section commander sneered at Jiannan, and did not dare to despise Longyou, Shuofang, and Hexi, but he was quite jealous when he mentioned Beiting Wang Zhengjian and Anxi Gao Xianzhi. Now looking at these two hundred horsemen, you can know that the Beiting army is also a strong enemy! ”

Since he could not figure out how many soldiers and horses were still behind the enemy, Tian Qianzhen did not order the 100-man team to fight the enemy to the death, but disengaged as soon as possible after finding out the truth and reality. Tian Qianzhen tried to dispatch hundreds of soldiers and horses to bluff and surround the three people, intending to force the enemy to flee west with the people, while the Luoluo River could follow and attack, using the rout and the people to charge the enemy's main force.

Unbeknownst to him, the enemy pretended to run to the west, covering several horsemen to rush lightly, but turned east and rushed into the forest again to wait for reinforcements.

"The more cunning the prey, the more it is worth the trouble to catch." Tian Qianzhen sent two ten-man teams to pursue the enemy's light cavalry, and at the same time, he tied the ambush circle more densely.

The clouds are low and twilight, and the snow is dancing back to the wind.

As twilight approaches, the warmer it gets. Tian Qianzhen was dressed in a fox fur and was not afraid of the biting cold wind, and the ordinary cavalry of the Dragged River could only wrap the variegated fur and cotton linen robe on the iron armor tightly.

The horses, armor, and blades that are equipped with the river are all the best choices, and as for the things that keep out the cold, they are all kinds and eclectic. Although the price of cotton robes is not particularly expensive, if the whole army receives it, it is also a lot of money.

A few years ago, when Suyeju launched cotton cloth, Youzhou secretly bought a lot of it through Sogdian merchants who were friendly with him. In addition to rewarding a small amount to his henchmen, An Jieshuai sold the rest to northern tribes such as Khitan, Xi, and Murowei at a high price, making a lot of money. Tian Qianzhen has dozens of cotton cloths in his mansion, and although he knows that the cotton robe is quite light, he still prefers the fur fur that he has been used to wearing since childhood.

"Wang Zheng is bold enough, the Taiyuan Wang family is really thick, and Qingzong Langjun must have made a lot of money." Tian Qianzhen smiled cruelly: "If you can annihilate this enemy army, the sons and daughters can also have good cotton robes to survive the winter." ”

The enemy did not let Tian Qianzhen wait too long, and before the ten-man team that went to chase and kill the enemy's light cavalry returned, there was an endless convoy under the protection of the brigade of men and horses, like an arrogant giant elephant in Jiannan, swaggering into the encirclement set up by the Luohe River.

"More than a thousand rides, nearly a hundred carriages, such a quirky lineup." The unexpected cart made Tian Qianzhen and his second King Kong puzzled: "What's the use of the baggage camp at the front?" Could it be that the enemy commander is a greedy fat man who takes good food and wine with him wherever he goes? ”

However, Tian Qianzhen, who had made a decision to kill, only hesitated slightly, so he ordered 600 light cavalry to fight in three directions together, harassing the enemy with cavalry and blocking their formation. At the same time, he ordered three hundred-man teams to guard against the enemy in the forest.

The ring is formed into a base, and the window is exposed.

Tian Qianzhen originally thought that the other party would send cavalry to shoot at the Luoluo River to cover the slow baggage battalion. Unexpectedly, the enemy general did the opposite, causing the four-wheeled cart to spin rapidly to the right, and building a moving fortress end to end in the vast snowfield. The cavalry, which should have been charged, took refuge in the camp.

"I don't know the soldiers' straw bales, God help me!" Tian Qianzhen laughed loudly, although he had not read a few military books, he also knew that the chariot was too heavy and unusable, and the mobile and flexible cavalry was the main force in the battle for supremacy on the battlefield.

Before the laughter fell, the sharp and piercing sound of breaking the air sounded one after another, and the screams came one after another, and Tian Qianzhen immediately changed color.

"How is that possible?" Tian Qianzhen, who looked puzzled, kicked his mount violently, approached the edge of the battlefield and looked hard, barely seeing the window of the enemy's carriage facing outward, and the crossbow bolts as thick as short spears continued to shoot out, reaping the lives of the river like a storm.

The crossbow arrows were so powerful that they could not be reduced after piercing a soldier who was draped all over his body, and the blood-stained cluster of arrows could still cause damage; The Giant Crossbow can adjust the direction and angle of the design with dexterity, making it extremely difficult to dodge. The most depressing thing is that the range of crossbow arrows far exceeds that of cavalry bows, and is several points stronger than the infantry bows commonly used in the army.

Because it was suppressed by the giant crossbow, it was impossible to steal chickens in the Luoluo River, and it was impossible to harass the enemy formation. After a while, a steady stream of arrows flew in the car formation, and the casualties in the river became more and more heavy.

"Spread out! Retreat! Tian Qianzhen, who urgently ordered the six hundred-man team to retreat beyond the range of the giant crossbow, did not notice that on the ramp of the rear door of the cart, a catapult with a complex structure was slowly driving down.

"What a hedgehog! If you charge in a column with heavy cavalry, you may be able to break through the gap between the carts, but you will definitely suffer heavy casualties. Tian Qianzhen glanced back at the depths of the wind and snow: "Fortunately, there are other means, I want to see how many thorns there are on the hedgehog!" ”